Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 89 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 -36 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,219 2,024 2,569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.29% 2.94% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 3.51% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 800 1,146 2,017
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -2.93%
75th Percentile £94,063 £89,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,125 £112,500 £111,746
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,242 57,727 48,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.14% 83.98% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,567 30,431 37,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 23 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 1,131 £75,000 +7.14% 559
London +8 667 £85,000 - 221
UK excluding London -71 506 £68,500 +5.38% 440
Work from Home -16 502 £72,500 +7.41% 390
North of England -33 196 £70,000 +14.37% 97
North West -7 124 £70,000 +12.00% 61
South East -85 107 £70,000 +3.70% 148
Midlands +23 70 £71,250 +9.62% 61
Yorkshire -29 59 £75,000 +22.54% 23
South West -53 50 £61,250 -2.00% 57
Scotland -38 45 £66,000 +1.54% 33
West Midlands +32 41 £70,000 +7.69% 41
East of England -11 33 £66,500 +6.40% 30
East Midlands +11 27 £76,750 +18.08% 17
North East -5 13 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Wales -4 7 £53,500 -2.73% 13
Northern Ireland -12 1 - - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.13%) Apache
2 26 (2.13%) Confluence
3 23 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (0.98%) CMS
6 11 (0.90%) JBoss
7 8 (0.66%) Appian
8 6 (0.49%) nginx
8 6 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.41%) IIS
10 4 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
12 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.082%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.23%) Maya
2 10 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.33%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.66%) SAP FS
4 7 (0.57%) Endur
4 7 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.33%) Shopify
6 1 (0.082%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.082%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.082%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.082%) Quorum
6 1 (0.082%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.082%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 647 (53.08%) AWS
2 577 (47.33%) Azure
3 200 (16.41%) GCP
4 172 (14.11%) Serverless
5 152 (12.47%) SaaS
6 131 (10.75%) GitHub
7 119 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
9 67 (5.50%) Amazon S3
10 64 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
12 57 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (4.43%) PaaS
14 47 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 37 (3.04%) Power Platform
18 34 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 32 (2.63%) IaaS
20 31 (2.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.90%) Network Security
2 9 (0.74%) HTTP
3 7 (0.57%) AMQP
3 7 (0.57%) Firewall
4 5 (0.41%) WAN
5 3 (0.25%) Broadband
5 3 (0.25%) Multicast
6 2 (0.16%) DNS
6 2 (0.16%) Internet
6 2 (0.16%) LAN
6 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.082%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.082%) MQTT
7 1 (0.082%) SNMP
7 1 (0.082%) SSL
7 1 (0.082%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (14.19%) NoSQL
2 158 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 151 (12.39%) MongoDB
4 133 (10.91%) SQL Server
5 84 (6.89%) Relational Database
6 58 (4.76%) MySQL
7 55 (4.51%) DynamoDB
8 51 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (2.71%) Redis
11 32 (2.63%) Big Data
12 30 (2.46%) RDBMS
13 23 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (1.56%) Power BI
16 14 (1.15%) Data Lake
17 12 (0.98%) Tableau
18 11 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
19 10 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
20 9 (0.74%) DB2
Development Applications
1 167 (13.70%) Git
2 119 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 55 (4.51%) JIRA
4 52 (4.27%) JUnit
5 48 (3.94%) GitLab
6 42 (3.45%) Selenium
7 35 (2.87%) Mockito
8 34 (2.79%) Cucumber
9 32 (2.63%) JMeter
10 23 (1.89%) TeamCity
11 18 (1.48%) Maven
12 16 (1.31%) CircleCI
13 15 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
14 12 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.90%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.90%) git-flow
15 11 (0.90%) Postman
16 9 (0.74%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 383 (31.42%) Finance
2 340 (27.89%) Social Skills
3 169 (13.86%) Law
4 165 (13.54%) Banking
5 112 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 99 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
7 73 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 61 (5.00%) Retail
9 57 (4.68%) Marketing
10 50 (4.10%) Financial Institution
11 37 (3.04%) Games
12 32 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.46%) Billing
14 27 (2.21%) Back Office
15 26 (2.13%) French Language
16 25 (2.05%) Dutch Language
16 25 (2.05%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.80%) Legal
18 20 (1.64%) Front Office
19 19 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 421 (34.54%) Developer
2 255 (20.92%) Senior
3 254 (20.84%) Software Engineer
4 222 (18.21%) Architect
5 219 (17.97%) Lead
6 113 (9.27%) Solutions Architect
7 109 (8.94%) Java Developer
8 105 (8.61%) .NET Developer
9 92 (7.55%) Java Engineer
10 80 (6.56%) Senior Developer
11 72 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
12 70 (5.74%) Lead Developer
13 68 (5.58%) Java Software Engineer
13 68 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 51 (4.18%) Software Developer
15 47 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
16 39 (3.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 39 (3.20%) Lead Architect
16 39 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (26.91%) .NET
2 266 (21.82%) RESTful
3 249 (20.43%) React
4 228 (18.70%) Spring
5 214 (17.56%) Kafka
6 199 (16.32%) REST
7 191 (15.67%) Spring Boot
8 144 (11.81%) AngularJS
9 132 (10.83%) .NET Core
10 126 (10.34%) Node.js
11 116 (9.52%) HTML
12 84 (6.89%) .NET Framework
13 82 (6.73%) CSS
14 76 (6.23%) ASP.NET
15 69 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
15 69 (5.66%) Web Services
16 68 (5.58%) ASP.NET Web API
17 66 (5.41%) Entity Framework
17 66 (5.41%) Hibernate
18 56 (4.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 351 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 182 (14.93%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (8.61%) Product Ownership
4 101 (8.29%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
7 40 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 38 (3.12%) Algorithms
9 32 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 31 (2.54%) Public Cloud
11 29 (2.38%) Mobile App
11 29 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 26 (2.13%) Management Information System
13 23 (1.89%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.39%) Blockchain
14 17 (1.39%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
15 14 (1.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.76%) Linux
2 30 (2.46%) Windows
3 15 (1.23%) Android
4 9 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.33%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) CentOS
7 2 (0.16%) Debian
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.082%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (51.68%) Agile
2 572 (46.92%) CI/CD
3 495 (40.61%) DevOps
4 419 (34.37%) Software Engineering
5 257 (21.08%) Containerisation
6 251 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 246 (20.18%) AI
8 228 (18.70%) Mentoring
8 228 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
9 200 (16.41%) Event-Driven
10 199 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 186 (15.26%) TDD
12 174 (14.27%) SDLC
13 170 (13.95%) Roadmaps
14 159 (13.04%) Test Automation
15 147 (12.06%) Computer Science
16 144 (11.81%) Scrum
17 136 (11.16%) Clean Code
17 136 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
18 134 (10.99%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 437 (35.85%) Java
2 336 (27.56%) C#
3 296 (24.28%) SQL
4 293 (24.04%) Python
5 258 (21.16%) JavaScript
6 184 (15.09%) TypeScript
7 60 (4.92%) Go
8 40 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.20%) Shell Script
10 24 (1.97%) PHP
11 23 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.48%) Rust
13 17 (1.39%) PowerShell
13 17 (1.39%) Scala
14 15 (1.23%) C++
15 14 (1.15%) Ruby
16 13 (1.07%) C
17 9 (0.74%) Bash
18 8 (0.66%) Bicep
19 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (14.60%) Degree
2 105 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 98 (8.04%) Security Cleared
4 72 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.25%) AWS Certification
6 57 (4.68%) Master's Degree
7 38 (3.12%) Azure Certification
8 35 (2.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.66%) PMP
14 7 (0.57%) CISM
14 7 (0.57%) CISSP
15 5 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
17 3 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.22%) QA
2 31 (2.54%) GDPR
3 24 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.31%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.90%) NIST
5 11 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (0.90%) SLA
6 9 (0.74%) IFRS
6 9 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.66%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.57%) EMIR
9 5 (0.41%) SEPA
10 4 (0.33%) NCSC
11 3 (0.25%) WCAG
12 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 380 (31.17%) Docker
2 15 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.25%) Firmware
5 2 (0.16%) HDFS
5 2 (0.16%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.16%) vSphere
6 1 (0.082%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 397 (32.57%) Kubernetes
2 165 (13.54%) Terraform
3 53 (4.35%) Grafana
4 36 (2.95%) Ansible
5 30 (2.46%) Kibana
6 29 (2.38%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.39%) Argo
8 16 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.41%) Mesos
10 4 (0.33%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.33%) Puppet
11 2 (0.16%) Istio
11 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.082%) Nagios
Vendors
1 197 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.17%) Oracle
3 34 (2.79%) Guidewire
4 29 (2.38%) Google
5 28 (2.30%) Splunk
6 27 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.05%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.89%) SAP
9 19 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.23%) BiZZdesign
11 14 (1.15%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (0.82%) Duck Creek
13 10 (0.82%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.74%) IBM
14 9 (0.74%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.74%) Software AG